Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-05-27
THE NATIONAL GAME.

PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's private secretary,
Lamont, is base ball enthusiast.
IT is estimated that $3.50, 900 will be paid in
salaries to baseball players this season.
MooLIC, of last seasons Chicago Club, is
doing some clever batting for the Boston
Blues.
THE National League and American Asso-
citation use about 4, 900 balls in the course of a
season.
CALVIN, of the Pittsburgs, is said to be one
of the greatest base-watching pitchers in the
League.
THE Detroit and st. Louis Clubs are hold
ing the lead manfully in their respective as
sociations.
THE strength of the Pittsburg, Washington
and indianapolis Clubs seem to have been uIl-
derestimated.
GOVERNORS ISLAND, in New York Bay,
has fine ball team, composed of soldiers
stationed there.
OLD PETE BROWNING, of the Louisville
Club, is proving himself one of the greatest
batters in the country.
HARDIE RICHARDSON made the first home
run at Detroit, His reward is 100 shaves at
a first class barber shop.
RAMSEY, the pitcher of Louisville Club,
has been fined $50 and indefinitely suspended
by Manager Kelly for getting drunk
New HAVEN made the first triple play of
the season. On the following day the Ath-
letics followed suit in the game against Bal
tmore.
THERE are now two one-armel pitchers in
the profession, not including Daily, namely
Ed Rabbets, of Jersey City, and England, Of
Sandusky, 0.
THE first catcher to wear gloves behind the
bat was Delaverage of the Victory Club, of
Troy 1860 The first to wear a mask was
Thayer, of the Newarks, in 1875.
GLAsscoCK, of indianapolis, is playing the
greatest game of his life at short, covering a
great extent of territory and making mar
vellous stops and throws. At the bat, how
ever, he has shown up weak so far.
PROFESSIONAL baseball players make
plenty of money and Iaany of them are wise
enough to save it. There are probably at
least twenty-five players in the National
League who have bank accounts of from SlO,-
900 to $4,000.
OF the international League players now
with the League and Association, Griffin, of
Baltimore, is the only one who is holding up
his end Morrison, of the Nets, Darling, of
the Chicagos, and Morrison, of the Cleve-
lands have not yet played up to last years
form.
A SINGULAR thing occurred in the sixth
inning Of the thirteen-inning Detroit-Pitts-
burg game. Miller was at the bat and struck
a ball foul into the air. A sparrow was at
that instant skimming over the field and the
ball struck the bird squarely, bringing it to
the earth dead.
THE Detroit management in a circular
says: "The management feels confident that
the Detroit Ball Club will be able to win the
| championship of the League, and trusts that
its patrons, at the end of the season, may
have the pleasure Of witnessing a series of
games for the worlds championship with the
champions Of the American Association"
Il WANT my men to play with their heads
as well as their hands and feet" says Man
ager John Kelley of the Louisville Club. mo
club can win if it does not resort to strategy
and science, and there is as much of this in
baseball as chess, cards, or anything else. 1
have been driving this notion into the heads
of the boys lately and now, for the first time
in their lives, they use signs in fielding, bat
ting and base running to a good advantage" +"